This book is a comprehensive and authoritative source on nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) pathogens and diseases and their appropriate management, with a focus on lung disease. NTM diseases, especially lung diseases, are increasing in prevalence in the U.S. and internationally with concomitant growing interest in a broad section of the medical community. Often merely included in coverage of tuberculosis, many aspects of NTM organisms and diseases are actually very different than TB.  These differences are not intuitive or trivial and frequently result in suboptimal management of NTM patients.  This book addresses these gaps in the literature with chapters on microbiology, pathophysiology, epidemiology, the various diseases that can stem from NTM, and their particular management. There is also coverage on prevention and NTM as a public health problem. For pulmonologists and infectious disease physicians, this is the definitive resource on nontuberculous mycobacteria.

Introduction and Historical Perspective on NTM Disease

The Modern Microbiology Laboratory and Its Role in NTM Disease
Mechanisms of NTM Drug Resistance
Pathophysiology of NTM Lung Disease
Environmental Niches for NTM and Their Clinical Significance
Genetic and Acquired Immune Dysfunction and NTM Disease
United States Epidemiology of NTM Lung Disease
Global Epidemiology of NTM Lung Disease
Diagnosis of NTM Lung Disease
NTM Lung Disease, General Management Principles
Mycobacterium avium Complex Lung Disease
Mycobacterium kansasii Lung Disease
Other Slowly Growing Mycobacteria and Lung Disease
Mycobacterium abscessus Subspecies Lung Disease
Other Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria Lung Disease
Surgical Management of NTM Infections
Management of Lung Comorbidities in NTM Patients
Extrapulmonary NTM Disease.